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so give, and return a duplicate thereof to the chief officers of the Cus- 

 toms at London, for such as shall be granted in England, Wales, and 

 Berwick, and to the chief officers of the Customs at Dublin, for such 

 as shall be given in Ireland, together with the names of the person or 

 persons from whom such ship was bought, and the sum of money 

 which was paid for her, as also the names of all such persons who are 

 part-owners of her, if any such be. 



XI. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, that if 

 any officers of the Customs shall from and after the said first day of 

 April allow the privilege of being a ship or vessel to England, 

 Ireland, Wales, or town of Berwick, or any of them belonging, to 

 any foreign-built ship or vessel, until such certificate be before them 

 produced, or such proof and oath taken before them ; (2) or if any of- 

 ficer of the Customs shall allow the privilege of an English-bmM ship, 

 or other ship to any of the aforesaid places belonging, to any English 

 or foreign-built ship coming into any port, and making entry of any 

 goods, until examination whether the master and three-fourths of 

 the mariners be English: (3) or shall allow to any foreign-built ship 

 bringing in the commodities of the growth of tlae country where it 

 was built, the privilege by this Act to such ship given, until examina- 

 tion and proof whether it be a ship of the built of that country, and 

 that the master and three-fourths of the mariners are of that country ; 

 (4) or if any person who is or shall be made Governor of any lands, 

 islands, plantations or territories in Africa, Asia, or America, by 

 his Majesty, his heirs or successors, shall suffer any foreign-built 

 ship or vessel to load or unload any goods or commodities within 

 the precincts of their governments, until such certificate be produced 

 before them, or such as shall be by them appointed to view the same, 

 and examination whether the master and three-fourths of the 

 mariners at least be English; (5) that for the first offence such officer 

 of the Customs and Governors shall be put out of their places, offices 

 or governments. 



XII. Provided always, that this act, or anything therein con- 

 tained, extend not, or be meant, to restrain and prohibit the importa- 

 tion of any the commodities of the Strcights or Levant-Seas, loaden 

 in Englisn-\ym\i shipping, and whereof the master and three fourths 

 of the mariners at least are English, from the usual ports or places 

 for lading of them heretofore within the said Streights or Levant 

 seas, though the said commodities be not of the very growth of the 

 said places. 



XIII. Provided also, That this act, or anything herein contained, 

 extend not, or be meant, to restrain the importing of any East-India 

 commodities loaden in English-built shipping, and whereof the 

 master and three fourths of the mariners at least are English, from 

 the usual place or places for lading of them in any part of those 

 seas, to the southward and eastward of Cdbo bona Esperanza, 

 although the said ports be not the very places of their growth. 



XIV. Provided also, That it shall and may be lawful to and for 

 any of the people of England, Ireland, Wales, Islands of Guernsey 

 or Jersey, or town of Berwick upon Tweed, in vessels or ships to them 

 belonging, and whereof the master and three-fourths of the mariners 

 at least are English, to load and bring in from any of the ports of 

 Spain or Portugal, or Western Islands, commonly called Azores, or 



